[Bug 1717951] Re: UIFe: Drop imagemagick-display from the default install

[Iain Lane]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 02:00:59AM -0000, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> Here's a patch for ubuntu-settings to hide the Display app from the
> Ubuntu and Ubuntu on Xorg desktops. This is similar to what Ubuntu
> Budgie, Ubuntu MATE and Ubuntu GNOME already do.

This looks like a reasonable approach I think. It sucks a bit that then
you can't see it even if you want to, so I think the right approach long
term is to convince the maintainer to split the packaging.

I golfed your diff a little bit, and made the ubuntu-xorg desktop files
a symlink to the ubuntu ones to save a bit of space. See the packaging
VCS (lp:~ubuntu-desktop/+junk/ubuntu-settings) and feel free to upload
if it still works for you.

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Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer                                   [ laney at debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]

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Title:
  UIFe: Drop imagemagick-display from the default install

Status in imagemagick package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in imagemagick package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  Impact
  ======
  I'm proposing to drop the ImageMagick app from the default Ubuntu 17.10.

  It is visible in the Show Applications view of the Activities Overview
  so this could impact screenshots.

  Justification
  =============
  imagemagick is a collection of commandline utilities for working with images, photos, etc. It is a required dependency for many things and will still be installed by default.

  Bundled with imagemagick is the "display" app, which is an app with an
  unusual, difficult-to-use UI. It was not intentionally included in the
  default Ubuntu install but was only there because it was packaged
  together.

  I am proposing splitting the display app to a separate binary package
  so that it is available for install for the few who do want to use the
  app.

  I tried proposing this to Debian. See comment #60 on the attached
  Debian bug but the Debian maintainer doesn't seem interested in
  accepting my proposal any time soon. (I emailed him directly a few
  months ago too.)

  List Notifications
  ==================
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2017-September/020534.html
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2017-September/007403.html

  Other Info
  ==========
  I will be attaching a patch for review by the Desktop Team here soon.

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